Table of contents
Table of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1Understanding glocalization and fairy tales
1.15 Global connections: An overview
1.1.1Imagining the global, the local, and the glocal
1.2A cognitive understanding of glocalization
1.2.1An overview of important terms
1.2.2The cognitive blending of global and local
1.3Glocalization, children’s literature, and subjectivity
1.4Reading the glocal
1.5Approaches to subjectivity: Mixing Eastern and Western perspectives
1.6Glocal relationships in children’s literature
1.7Spotlight on the fairy-tale network
Chapter 2Glocal fairy-tale retellings
2.1The nation re-imagined: A mishmash of scripts
2.2The immigrant’s story: Living in the blend of East and West
2.3Metamorphosis and the deconstruction of stereotypes
2.4Subjectivity at the intersection of fairy tale, history, and globalization
2.5Origins of nation reimagined: War and folktale
2.6Mishmash fairy tale scripts: A deconstruction of colonial mentality
2.7Reshaping the postcolonial child into the glocal child
2.8From cultural diversity to cultural hybridity: The glocal script
Chapter 3“Can we be compassionately blended?”
3.1Constructing Orient and Occident
3.2Orientalization as a script and as a space
3.3The forbidden chamber and the Beast’s palace
3.4The orientalization of Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard: An English tradition
3.5“Bluebeard” I: Constructing the orientalized space through words and pictures
3.6“Bluebeard” II: Blending orientalized illustrations with a Western narrative
3.7“Bluebeard” III: The forbidden chamber and the destruction of the monstrous oriental
3.8“Beauty and the Beast” I: Orientalized illustrations
3.9“Beauty and the Beast” II: Beauty’s father, the Beast, and the Beast’s palace
3.10“Beauty and the Beast” III: Beauty claims the orientalized space
3.11Beast: A glocal perspective
3.12Beast: Reconceptualizing the orientalized space into the glocal space
Chapter 4East imagines West: Conceptualizations of Western fairy-tale space in the anime films of Hayao Miyazaki
4.1The glocalization of anime: An overview
4.2Glocalizing “home”: Negotiating statelessness, furusato, and wakon yōsai
4.3Glocal fantasy spaces in the films of Hayao Miyazaki
4.4Blends instead of boundaries: Re-imagining the West and the East
4.5Glocalizing the West: Porco Rosso and Howl’s Moving Castle
4.6Liminal spaces and adolescence in Kiki’s Delivery Service and The Secret World of Arrietty
4.7Negotiating the idyllic past, the natural world, and the modern present
4.8Metamorphosis in Porco Rosso and Howl’s Moving Castle
Chapter 5Mermaids
5.1The mermaid’s duality and “The Little Mermaid” script
5.2Constructions of global and local spaces in The Little Mermaid
5.3Metamorphosis and fragmentation: Crossing physical and spatial borders
5.4Glocal otherness: Blending the mermaid’s alterity with Asian fairy-tale schemas of otherness
5.5
The Mermaid in the Whirlpool of the Pasig River (Sirena): The resurgence of the local
5.6
My Girlfriend is a Gumiho: The redemption of mermaid and fox-woman
5.7
Ponyo: An ecological fable
5.8Ponyo’s evolution
Chapter 6Beasts (and Beauties)
6.1The beast-groom script: Constructing a glocal network
6.2The beast-groom at the center of the glocal space
6.3The beast-groom: A balanced contradiction
6.4Bestial nature and natural bestiality
6.5Glocalizing Cocteau and Disney: The curse of masculinity
6.6Gentle men made monstrous
6.7When beast-grooms infiltrate society
6.8Beauty tames the Beast: Integrating the beast-groom
6.9In search of the Beast
Conclusion
References
Index
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